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Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

by Ferre, Rosario

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Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable collection of stories.

Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor ("Cursed Love"), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric. In this tale the De La Valle family's secrets, ambitions, and passions, interwoven with the fate of the local sugar mill, are recounted by various relatives, friends, and servants. As the characters struggle under the burden of privilege, the story, permeated with haunting echoes of Puerto Rico's own turbulent history, becomes a splendid allegory for a nation's past.

The three accompanying stories each follow the lives of the descendants of the De La Valle family, making the book a drama in four parts, raising troubling issues of race, religion, freedom, and sex, with Ferre's trademark irony and startling imagery.

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Product Details

  • Penguin Publishing Group Brand
  • Oct 1, 1996 Pub Date:
  • 0452277485 ISBN-10:
  • 9780452277489 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 7.9 in * 0.51 in * 5.27 in Dimensions:
  • 0 lb Weight: